Google PhotosStep by step, it has managed to establish itself as the default gallery for Android users, mainly due to its growing functionalities and its cloud service. One of those functionalities, among many that it has, is to label the people who accompany us in the photo by faces. Curious no?
It is an option that has really been installed in the application for a long time, although it had a more automated job in which the gallery detected the name of that person and classified them by albums. The problem came when, for whatever reason, the app did not recognize that face, and therefore, it was left unclassified.
What is not known so much is about the possibility to do it manually, to file on your site corresponding to the people who accompany us in the photographs. And if you have to share that album through a social network, it is best that those tags are well assigned.
Be careful with privacy
There is a bit of controversy among the users of the app, since it is considered that this tagging by facial recognition can violate personal privacy. Everything is based on the fact that if the photograph circulates on the internet, there will be a direct relationship between the name and the face of the person.
However, without going crazy, it is a great tool to keep our albums organized for the future. To do this, it only requires a simple step, although we must say that this function is not available in all countries.
How to manually tag in Google Photos
First, we open the Google Photos app, and then we click on the three-bar icon, located in the upper left. Once the menu is displayed, we go down to «Settings», and then we go to «Group similar faces». When we enter, an option called "Grouping by faces" appears, although it is probably deactivated if we have never done this before. Well, we activate that box, we exit the app and then we wait a few minutes for the changes to be made.
Now, the app must group all the images by people and synchronize them with the cloud, which is not done in 2 minutes. We waited a while and then, we accessed the window we had reached the previous time, to click on «Choose» on the option «No face labeled as me». Finally, we select our face and click on «OK». Voilà, the checkbox will be activated "Help your contacts to recognize your face".